Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Tricia
Asklar received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. She lives in Rochester, New York, and teaches writing at
Nazareth College. Her poems have recently appeared in Redactions,Verse Daily, Boxcar Poetry Review, Blue Earth
Review, The Dos Passos Review, and Neon.

George Bishop was raised on the Jersey Shore
and attended Rutgers University studying English/Creative Writing.
He relocated to Florida in 1985 where he now lives and writes.
Recent work has appeared in White Pelican Review, Comstock Review
and is forthcoming in Jerseyworks.

Featured most recently in Alba, freefall, mad
swirl, MiPOesias, Mississippi Crow, Poesia and Third
Wednesday, Janann Dawkins has poems upcoming in
At-Large, LiteraryMary, and The Tonopah Review. Leadfoot
Press published her chapbook, Micropleasure, in 2008. Awarded
a B.A. in American Studies from Grinnell College, she now resides in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jacob Erin-Cilberto is a poet & teacher.
He has been writing poetry & prose since 1970, and has taught
English composition and literature at John A. Logan College and at
Shawnee Community College since 1994. He enjoys teaching poetry
workshops for the Heartland Writers Guild in Sikeston, Missouri &
the Southern Illinois Writers Guild. His work has been published in
numerous magazines & journals. Received a Pushcart Poetry Prize
nomination for 2006 & 2007. He has recently published his 10th book
of poetry, "against the current".

Yevgen Fedotov was born in Ukraine in 1980.
Since then he has lived in several places including the U.S. and
Mexico. Traveling has allowed him to learn several languages and
enrich his cultural background. Currently he resides in Canada,
where he is pursuing a career in Psychology. His inspiration for
poetry comes from any daily interaction that evokes a strong
emotional reaction.

Jéanpaul Ferro is a 4-time Pushcart Prize
nominee. His work has appeared in Columbia Review, Cortland
Review, Review Americana, ProvidenceJournal, and
Hawaii Review. His poetry has been featured on WBAR radio
in NYC and he was the featured author in the August 2008 issue of
Contemporary American Voices.

Christopher Fog lives in Los Angeles, but
travels a lot. He rarely stays longer than 6 months in one place, as
he gets bored easily. He will soon go to Russia to explore the snow,
as L.A. certainly doesn’t offer any. He has a degree from Colorado
State University, where he studied (sometimes) and wrote often. He
had a pet ferret, but he died from old age.

James Grabill has had work in literary
periodicals since the early ’70s and teaches writing and
sustainability in Oregon.

John Grey is anAustralian born poet,
playwright, and musician. His latest book is "What Else Is There"
from Main Street Rag. Recently in Cape Rock, Weber Studies,
Writers Bloc and the Connecticut Review.

Ann Hite’s short stories have appeared in
numerous publications, including The Dead Mule, where her
selected Black Mountain Stories are featured for the May 2008 Issue,
Fiction Warehouse, Cup of Comfort, Foliate Oak, and
Moonwort Review. Her essay, Surviving Mom, appeared in Marlo
Thomas’ bestselling collection, The Right Words At The Right Time,
Vol., 2. Ann lives with her family in Atlanta where she has over
1,000 books, a flower garden, and her laptop. Feel free to visit her
website: www.att.net/p/pwp-painteddoor

Harold Houser is primarily a Sci-Fi writer,
with stories published on Bewildering Stories and Everyday
Fiction. As a new writer, Harold wants to try different styles
and genres.

Jaz is a singer, published poet and ASCAP
member songwriter. Her poetry has appeared in publications including
WRITE ON!, Struggle, Poetic Hours, WestWard
Quarterly,Roses and Rainbows and the 2006 anthology
Distinguished Writings/Publications Collection Book. In 2008 she
placed 2nd in the Eleventh Biannual Poetry Card Contest for Blue
Mountain Arts.

Michael Keshigian is the author of five
poetry chapbooks, including Warm Summer Memories, recently published
by Maverick Duck Press. His poetry has appeared in numerous
national and international journals as well as many online
publications, including ByLine Magazine, Oyez Review, The Sierra
Nevada College Review, Bellowing Ark, and Ibbetson Street
Press. He has been the feature poet in The Aurorean,
Pegasus Review, Chantarelle’s Notebook and Reader’s Choice in
the Fairfield Review. He is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of
The Net nominee.

Steve Klepetar teaches literature and writing
at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. His work has
appeared in many journals and has been nominated for the Pushcart
and Best of the Web.

Russell H. Krauss was born and raised in New
Jersey, and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in
mathematics. He served as an actuary for a national life insurance
company, the last thirteen years as senior vice president and chief
actuary, and then established his own software and actuarial
consulting practice. He is now retired and lives in Nampa, Idaho and
has a second home in the mountain resort town of McCall, Idaho. He
keeps busy writing software, fiction, & commentary.

performer, lyricist, artist, and film maker. She is the
Editor-in-Chief of the poetry e-zine Quill and Parchment.com.
She tours the U.S., Canada, and England, as a performance poet,
She has published 3 books of poetry Unsung Songs
(2003), Silver Tears and Time (2005), Contingencies
(2008) and co-authored a book on film production design.
Designing Movies: Portrait of a Hollywood Artist (Greenwood/Praeger
2006)

International talk show host Michael Levy,
is the author of eight books, a mystical poet, inspirational
philosopher and wellness/healthy living speaker. His latest books
are "The Joys of Live Alchemy" and "Worry Causes Wrinkles" which can
help a person change dark negative situations into beautiful,
colorful, positive actions, that bring de-lights on the darkest of
days. www.pointoflife.com/

Among Lyn Lifshin’s recent books: THE
LICORICE DAUGHTER: MYYEAR WITH RUFFIAN, Texas Review Press and
from Black Sparrow at Godine: ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME.
Just out: DESIRE and 92 RAPPLE.
www.lynlifshin.com

Patrick Loafman has been a seasonal wildlife
biologist since 1988. He has published poems in over twenty
journals, two chapbooks of poetry and is trying to get his first
novel published. He’s also a gourd artist, overly proud of the gourd
banjo he made, which he plays constantly.

Melissa Lowes has a degree in Literature, and
an MFA in Creative Writing. Her short fiction has appeared in
Skive Magazine, Orchard Press Mysteries, and The Green Silk
Journal. She currently resides in the San Diego area with her
husband and son.

Pamela MacBean lives in Northern New
Hampshire with her husband on a small farm. She has been writing
poetry since elementary school. Some of the works that she has been
featured in are Poetry Depth Quarterly, Ship of Fools, Ancient
Paths, Interpoetry.com, The Lyric and Small Brushes.

Patty Mager is a banker and investor who has
been writing poetry for ten years. Patty has been published in
literary anthologies including The Elms, Literary House
Review, Skyline Magazine, SpinningSIntense
Tales, Skyline Review, and Bottlecap Magazine. The
Webster-Kirkwood Times recently did an article on Patty and
four of her poems were featured. She has also been published in both
the American and Fort Worth Haiku Society Journals.

Arlene L. Mandell, a retired English
professor, has published more than 300 poems, essays and short
stories. "Up on the Roof," a short story published by Skyline
last year, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Four of her
poems won ribbons this past summer at the Sonoma County Fair.

Ryan McLellan

teaches high school English and sings for the psychobilly band
Triple Corpse Horror. His poems have appeared in journals such
as Centripetal, Lucidity, Lost Beat Poetry and Dance to
Death among others. His chapbook, Prove Me Wrong
was published by Sargent Press in the fall of 2007. He lives
in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Amanda McQuade attended Ohio State University
where she earned her B.A. in English, concentrating in American
Literature. Her work has recently appeared in, The Cherry Blossom
Review, Mississippi Crow, and Rumiate. Currently, she is
moving from Los Angeles to the green hills and valleys of North
Carolina.

Anthony J. Mohr’s short stories have appeared
in Bibliophilos, Circle Magazine, Skyline Magazine, Word Riot
and The LBJ. His essays and memoirs have been published in
Bibliophilos, The Christian Science Monitor, Currents, and the
Sacramento Bee. In December, 2006, Skyline Magazine
nominated one of his short stories for a Pushcart Prize.

Marissa Morrison is a writer, mother,
teacher, and hopefully soon, a student once again. She drinks
too much coffee and really likes the Beatles.

As Editor of Celebrated Thoughts, Annette
Nasser is as diversified as the next writer. She enjoys reading
and publishing many talented and gifted writers from around the
world and back. She has been published in various literary magazines
and has received a past award for her literary newsletter.

An author and a poetess, French artist, So.
Noël is also part of the Parisian musical scene, as a drummer in
the rock and roll band Iku and a singer/lyricist/composer in the
avant-garde electronica duo d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e. Her first novel,
Plaintes contre X, will be published by the publishing house
La Nef Des Fous in 2009.

Robert K. Omura lives in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada where he practices law. He is active in education, law
reform, the environment and the outdoors. His fiction and poetry
appears or is forthcoming in journals in the U.S., Canada, and
abroad. He is currently working on a novel, but that’s slow going at
best.

Stephanie Pope, A teacher, author, poet and
mythologist, Stephanie has a BA in education from Walsh University
and a master’s degree in mythological studies from Pacifica Graduate
Institute. Stephanie has established mythopoetry.com to
explore myth-logical possibilities with the language of cyber space,
to see from within what images see and to make her poetry-making an
e-vocation. A poet who lives and works off the grid, surfacing
occasionally in Arizona and New York.

Diana Raab’s poetry is widely published in
national publications. She has two poetry collections, My Muse
UndressesMe and Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You,
and a memoir, Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret
Journal which won the 2008 National Indie Excellence Award for
Memoir. She teaches at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and the
Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference.

Joyce Raab-Faber (Joy) attends the University
of New Mexico where she studies English and Creative Writing. She
earned an Associate of Applied Science in metals technology through
Albuquerque CNM. She is also a recycling artist. To view some of her
work, go to recyclesantafe.org. Her first short stories will be
published this spring and summer in Unlikely stories and Slow
Trains. Joy would like to thank Terry Brown Davidson for her
help and support in bringing these stories to you.

Patrick Reed received his BA in both English
and Philosophy from the Catholic University of America. He
currently works for the District of Columbia Public Schools through
the DC Teaching Fellows program.

Caleb Ross’s fiction and non-fiction has
appeared widely, most recently in Vestal Review, Word Riot,
and Flint Hills Review. He has appeared in journals alongside
Ron Carlson, Noah Cicero, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Almond, Aimee
Bender, and others and has studied with nationally known authors
including Peter Rock and Craig Clevenger. Visit him at
www.calebjross.com.

Michael C. Rush is a poet who lives and works
off the grid, surfacing occasionally in Arizona and New York.

Susan Sabia has had more than 100 articles
and stories published, most recently in Skyline Review and
SpinningS Magazine. She is a member of The Writers’ Workshop of
Fairfield, where she is known for murdering her fictional characters
in various gruesome ways. Between killings she is working on a novel
and her recipe for deviled eggs.

Ray Succre currently lives on the southern
Oregon coast with his wife and baby son. He has been published
in Aesthetica, BlazeVOX, and Pank, as well as in
numerous others across as many countries. His novel
Tatterdemalion (Cauliay Publishing) is forthcoming in early
2008. He tries hard.

Arianne Shahvisi is twenty-one years old, and
working towards an MSc in cosmology at Cambridge University. She has
been writing since childhood, but is only just beginning to submit
for publication.

Tom Siegar was born in Vienna, Austria and
was reared primarily in America. He believes firmly in the power of
redemption and the timelessness of the present. Tom seeks to convey
that there is always more hope than pain, more courage than fear and
more love than anger.

Dennis Patrick Slattery is author or co-editor of 11 books,
including three volumes of poetry: Casting the Shadows: Selected
Poems;Just Below the Water Line: Selected Poems; and Twisted
Sky: Selected Poems. He is the author of The Wounded Body:
Remembering the Markings of Flesh; Grace in the Desert: Awakening to
the Gifts of Monastic Life. Most recently he has co-edited a
volume of essays on mythology, with Glen Slater: Varieties of
Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. He
has been teaching for 40 years and riding motorcycles for at least
that long.

Serena Spinello is 27 years old and lives in
New York. Her poetry has been published in over seventy literary
journals and she’s the author of two chapbooks. In addition to being
a freelance Medical Health & Wellness writer she is an advocate for
various nonprofit organizations.

Carolyn Srygley-Moore is an award-winning
graduate of the Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars, in
Baltimore, & a Pushcart nominee; her digital chapbook Enough
Light on the Dogwood was published by Mimesis. Her work has
appeared in a number of journals to include Antioch Review, A
Hudson View, The 4 AM Poetry Review, & the antiwar anthology
Cost of Freedom. She currently lives in Upstate New York with
her husband & daughter.

Jonathan Stephens spends his days teaching
middle school English, writing young adult novels, and reviewing
books for TeenReads.com. He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing
from CSULB. Jonathan believes he is the only young adult author
whose birth country no longer exists and dares anyone to prove him
otherwise.

Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan

is a mathematician, linguist, and poet living indefinitely on the
Korean peninsula. Published works have appeared in Cherry Bleeds,
Sein und Werden (UK), Taj Mahal Review, and others.

Eric Tessier resides in Les Lilas, near
Paris, France. He writes in both French and English. He is the
published author of 5 books in French, and co author of several
picture books. His stories, reviews and essays are published in many
literary magazines in France, Belgium, India and in the USA. His
literary review La Nef Des Fous has become a publishing house
in 2005. He is a French social security legal expert.

Matt Thomas graduated with his Masters in
English from Syracuse University in 2005. Since then he has
published stories and articles in Outsider Ink, Word Riot,
a couple of academic journals and Kotori Music Magazine. His
first short story, Crossover, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
in 2006. You can read all of his work, and contact him at,
www.thevillagetotheleft.com.

Victoria Valentine is an author who founded
Skyline Publications in 2001, publishing writers, poets &
artists in three print publications & online several literary
websites. www.waterforestpress.com and www.nightwindpublishing.com
are the latest editions to the Skyline family, designed to
help authors publish & promote their poetry collections, short story
collections, novellas and novels. Victoria’s own published books:
At The Stroke Of Midnight, 24 tales of terror & The Cutest
Little Duckie children’s novella.

George G Wilson

,
a retired physician living in Hawaii, now pursues his first love,
storytelling. Educated at Duke University, he did medical training
at the University of Virginia and Stanford. His publications include
scientific articles in medical journals and four short stories in
Skyline.

Matthew Woolven teaches English and resides
in Connecticut. Some of his work has been published in Flutter
Poetry Journal, Offcourse, The Ranfurly Review,
The Scruffy Dog Review, Tonight: An Anthology of World Love Poetry
and The Poetry Porch.

Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who has
long adopted English as his writing language and his work has
appeared in over 100 literary magazines from 12 countries including,
in the USA, Antietam Review, California Quarterly,
Chiron Review, Concho River Review, The Iconoclast,
Italian Americana, Main Street Rag, Poesia,
Poesy and Potomac Review. He is the author of three
collections, most recently Straight Astray, and a featured
author in the 2006 edition of Poet’s Market. Website:
www.writesight.com/writers/Zanelli/